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Useful Resources
Podcasts
Sons of Anxiety
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08ph7lb
Stew Kingscott and Justyn Surrall open up about their own battles with stress, depression and anxiety as they team up with psychologist Dr Ben Rogers to investigate why men struggle to talk to each other about their mental health…..and what happens when they do.
Archewell Audio
https://open.spotify.com/show/7kz7cRLYAcPiWxqiKw1nlG?si=3bSOBKRiTRm4JimOd5gZjQ
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle try "interviews without the interviewing" – talking to a variety of people regarding their struggles with mental health, self-help tools, and further worldly topics.
Contacts
Mind
Call 0300 123 3393
We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Samaritans
Call 116 123
Samaritans is a registered charity available 24/7 365 days of the year, aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline
Work Related Stress
Reading Material
The Wellness Society - Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook
A really useful workbook to provide support for anyone struggling with anxiety due to Covid19
Fearne Cotton - Happy, Calm & Quiet
These three books also tie in with her Journals (named the same) to work on daily reflection for anxiety, depression and improving self-esteem.
Dr Emma Hepburn – A Toolkit for Modern Life
This book is filled with practical tools for taking care of your mental health, self-care, and self-esteem.
Dr Sarah Edelman – Change Your Thinking with CBT:
Overcome Stress, Combat Anxiety and Improve your Life
All of us experience complicated thoughts and feelings as we negotiate the day and these feelings can be difficult to manage. Sometimes we are aware that the way we think contributes to our difficulties, but don't know what to do about it
Matt Haig – Notes on a Nervous Planet
A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life. The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy.
Jeffrey E Young - Reinventing your Life (and feel great again)
Offering an innovative approach to solving long term emotional problems, based on the proven principles of cognitive therapy. This guide shows how to effectively change negative thought patterns.
Catherine Price - How to break up with your phone
It's the first thing you reach for when you wake, it's the last thing you see before you sleep. Explores the addiction around phones, and provides an easy to follow plan to help you conquer your phone addiction in 30 days.
Videos & Films
Nightmares - self-help video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WtZKo-0fFo&feature=emb_logo
Black dog of Depression
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc
At its worst, depression can be a frightening, debilitating condition. Millions of people around the world live with depression. Many of these individuals and their families are afraid to talk about their struggles, and don't know where to turn for help. However, depression is largely preventable and treatable. Recognizing depression and seeking help is the first and most critical towards recovery.
Three Identical Strangers
What makes us? Nature or nurture? - The vital point that affects the current nature-nurture debate and which is outlined in Three Identical Strangers (2018 Documentary) is the seemingly intense impact of genetic influences on Eddy, Robert and David. When they were reunited, they not only looked like doppelgangers, they displayed an uncanny number of shared habits.